Exhausted worshippers take a nap along the route of the Mazu pilgrimage as they await the arrival of the palanquin bearing an ancient statue of goddess Mazu which has been carried from the start point...

A man sleeps on a bench in front of Bethlehem Chapel in the Old Town.

Honza, a homeless man, sleeps on a mattress under an overpass in Prague's Balabenka district. He said that the police have told him that he and his two friends must leave this place at the end of th...

A patient lies on a foam mattress at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano S...

A patient lies on a concrete casing outside at Accra Psychiatric Hospital has four psychiatrists. In 2018 they saw 27,000 patients and admitted 819. They have 19 wards, 7 female, 11 male and one child...

A US marine waves at a child sleeping in a cot in the courtyard of a house where they are conducting a security patrol.

US marines stand beside a child sleeping in a cot in the courtyard of a house where they are conducting a security patrol.

A US Marine rests in his barracks at Camp Leatherneck.

A member of a US marine patrol takes a picture of his sleeping comrades as they take a rest during a patrol in Safar.

A US Marine rests in the Safar Bazaar.

A US marine sleeps on his bed at the base in Garmsir.

A US marine sleeps on his bed at the base in Garmsir.

A baby, covered by a netting to protect her from flies, sleeps at a camp for internally displaced people.

A woman with a sleeping toddler in her arms sit among the crowds of Iraqi Christians gathered outside the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad in the hope of getting a glimpse of Pope Francis durin...

A homeless boy sleeping on the concourse at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A man taking a siesta on a park bench where a thermometer reads 31.2 Celsius.

An indigenous Piraha baby sleeps in a hammock in a camp set up on the banks of the river Maici.

A woman lies on a sofa as a police officer searches for drugs in a shack used by crack cocaine users on Olarias Street, in one of the most violent neighbourhoods in Altamira.

A mattress for exclusive use by a homeless man who has scabies ('gale' in French) in a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclea...

Personal belongings of homeless people stored at a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker). After a certain number of...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, gives out hot drinks to a group of drug users, camped...

A homeless man sleeping in an ornate bus stop beside the Place des Nations, the UN's principal European HQ. The air temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

A homeless man sleeping in an ornate bus stop beside the Place des Nations, the UN's principal European HQ. The air temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

The emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talk to a rough sleeper at a bus stop by the UN's Palais des Nati...

Emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, looking for rough sleepers at a site often used by homeless people as...

Line of people sleeping on the street, in central Geneva, in front of a restaurant under renovation. The temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, gives out hot drinks to a group of drug users, camped...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, making hot drinks for a group of drug users, camped ou...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talks to a homeless woman. A team goes out every night...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talks to a potentially homeless man at Geneva's main r...

A homeless man sleeping in a concrete corridor of a car park in the Old Town.

People pass a homeless man sleeping on a bench beside a statue of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross movement, on the edge of the city's hisoric Old Town.

A homeless man sleeping on a bench at the edge of Geneva's historic Old Town, in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

A homeless man sleeping in a concrete corridor of a car park in the Old Town.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

A row of people sleeping rough on the wooden terrace of a play area, decorated by a grafitti artist.

A homeless man sleeping in the doorway to an art gallery in Geneva's historic Old Town.

A homeless man sleeping surrounded by his belongings, including some Swiss flag shopping bags, in the lee of a hut in the Parc des Eaux-Vivres near the lake.

A homeless man sleeping surrounded by his belongings, including some Swiss flag shopping bags, in the lee of a hut in the Parc des Eaux-Vivres near the lake.

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, prepares hot drinks for rough sleepers. A team goes ou...

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talking to homeless people living in the basement entra...

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, approaches a homeless person sleeping in a building ent...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people approaches a homeless woman sleeping in the hallway of...

A worker at the Taghabara gold mine rests beside a machine for crushing the ore to powder from which the gold will be recovered.

An elderly woman sleeping in a doorway in the urban refugee camp popularly known as 'Geneva Camp'. The people living in the area are related to Muslims who moved here mostly, but not exclusively, from...

A woman doing piece work attaches beads and sequins to a fabric while a man sleeps beneath the work frame in the urban refugee camp popularly known as 'Geneva Camp'. The people living in the area are...

A man sleeps on the floor of a room in the urban refugee camp popularly known as 'Geneva Camp'. The people living in the area are related to Muslims who moved here mostly, but not exclusively, from Bi...

A youth rests on a bed in the urban refugee camp popularly known as 'Geneva Camp'. The people living in the area are related to Muslims who moved here mostly, but not exclusively, from Bihar in India...

A 97 year old COVID-19 positive patient lies in his bed at St Cecilia's nursing home soon after he was transferred from hospital to the home's COVID-19 secure floor. During the first wave residents di...

An exhusted member of the medical staff rests in a corner of the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) at the Homerton Hospital.

A woman sleeps beside a graffiti-covered wall on the Adriatic coast.

A guard asleep at his post near the Martyrs Statue on Martyrs Square in the city centre.

A couple asleep in their swag (bivouac) on the morning after the main party at the Ariah Park Bachelor and Spinster ball. Known to locals as simply B&S balls, the events are held regularly in rural...

Jack Manning (19) places a slice of white bread over his eyes to help himself sleep on a couch on the back of a pick up truck ('Ute') at the Ariah Park, Bachelor and Spinster ball. Known to locals...

A child carries a basin of dishes past a damaged building after torrential rain caused the Mulongwe River to break its banks. The ensuing floods caused significant material damage with at least 3,500...

A child sleeps in the remnants of a house after torrential rain caused the Mulongwe River to break its banks. The ensuing floods caused significant material damage with at least 3,500 homes destroyed...

A child sleeps in the remnants of a house after torrential rain caused the Mulongwe River to break its banks. The ensuing floods caused significant material damage with at least 3,500 homes destroyed...

A family sleep in the remnants of a house after torrential rain caused the Mulongwe River to break its banks. The ensuing floods caused significant material damage with at least 3,500 homes destroyed...

A man sleeping on the surface at an informal gold mine.

An Algerian transit migrant sleeps in a decrepit abandoned factory building near the port of Patras from where he and his friends hope to get onboard a ship and travel to Italy.

Vincent Oletey (centre) relaxing with friends before getting a few hours' sleep ahead of his night's work in the village of Kpando Torkor. Vincent (14) and his brother Noah Oletey (12) spend up to si...

An intoxicated drug user lies on the pavement near Omonia Square.

A homeless injecting drug user sleeps surrounded by his possessions on the pavement near Omonia Square.

Cattle sleep in a field in the Peak District.

A man takes a nap during the short ferry ride from Kinmen's main island to Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's natio...

Segun Olalowo, a medical doctor at the Ogun Isolation Centre. ''As soon as I heard about the pandemic and how it was sweeping through the globe, I knew there was going to be a point at which every he...

Military personnel rest inside the Capitol. Following the invasion by pro-Trump supporters on 6 January 2021, and in preparation for Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January 2021, both National Guard an...

Military personnel rest near the Capitol. Following the invasion by pro-Trump supporters on 6 January 2021, and in preparation for Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January 2021, both National Guard and...

Military personnel rest near the Capitol. Following the invasion by pro-Trump supporters on 6 January 2021, and in preparation for Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January 2021, both National Guard and...

Sitting under a mosquito net, a mother watches as her three children fall asleep in the bed she shares with them, in her house in Bere.

Rui Monteiro Djassi, an exhausted domestic cleaner working on the acute medicine ward at University College Hospital. He is grabbing a short nap after working for 7.5 hours without stopping. He says:...

Rui Monteiro Djassi, an exhausted domestic cleaner working on the acute medicine ward at University College Hospital. He is grabbing a short nap after working for 7.5 hours without stopping. He says:...

South Sudanese refugee Athieng Agok (19) with her baby, Nyaring Pahchol, who was born in the bush three weeks earlier as Agok was fleeing fighting in Bor. Nyaring means 'running' in Dinka and many of...

South Sudanese refugees waiting for transport to take them from the overcrowded Dzaipi transit centre to a newly established Dzaipi II camp.

Alan (17), an unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant, takes a nap along other Central American migrants while a nun passes by with migrant children at the Casa del Caminante Jtatic Samuel Ruiz García shelt...

Sonya (17), an unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant, cuddles with her new boyfriend Cristian (23), a Honduran migrant, in the kitchen of La 72 shelter. A gang member started to go every day to the diner w...

Sonya (17), an unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant, kisses her new boyfriend Cristian (23), a Honduran migrant, in the kitchen of La 72 shelter. A gang member started to go every day to the diner where S...

Sonya (17), an unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant, cuddles with her new boyfriend Cristian (23), a Honduran migrant, in the kitchen of La 72 shelter. A gang member started to go every day to the diner w...

At the Nimule transit centre, on the border with South Sudan, an exhausted young man rests, leaning on his luggage. He came across the border in a private hired truck fleeing fighting in South Sudan.

South Sudanese refugees and their belongings piled among the trees at the Nyumanzi settlement as they wait to be resettled on plots of land. While they wait to be allocated a plot they must sleep in t...

A South Sudanese woman and her child sit among the family's belongings at the Nyumanzi settlement where refugees are being resettled on plots of land. While they wait to be allocated a plot they must...

Lee Su-Hui (63) asleep in her spot in Bangka Park.

Homeless people living on the street near Bangka Park in the Wanhua District.

Homeless people, drunk after drinking 'Mi Jiou' a cheap rice wine usually used for cooking, sleep on the ground on the northern side of Taipei Main Station (Breeze Taipei Station).

In the Dzaipi health clinic's maternity ward, a husband kneels and prays during a visit to see his sick wife.

A bowl of food floats on a puddle where Central American Migrants installed their shelter to sleep for a night in the main square of the city.

A Central American migrant rests beneath an improvised shelter.

Central American migrants sleeping beneath Mexican and Honduran flags in the main square after arriving from Huixtla.